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Choose My Adventure: Returning to Star Citizen (and fussing with tech)
It's been a long while since I got to hop into Star Citizen. Not for a lack of desire, but mostly for a lack...
The Daily Grind: What part of MMO design seems much easier to MMO players than it really is?
A while back, I saw someone make an offhand comment about how to save New World. According to this commenter (no names, not dunking),...
Pride Month celebrations begin in DC Universe Online, EverQuest, City of Heroes, and more MMOs
The month of June is Pride Month around the world, and that means that multiple MMORPGs and multiplayer games are going to be celebrating...
Twitch eliminates its safety advisory council after just four years of operation
How long does it take for Amazon and Twitch to believe that people will forget about improving safety and security on the streaming platform?...
The Daily Grind: Ships, mounts, or vehicles – do you have a preferred mount type in MMOs?
MOP's own Chris inspired today's Daily Grind as last week he was drooling all over the newly revealed Elite Dangerous spaceship. "Seeing this new...
One Shots: Stargazing for incoming asteroids
Now that you've got the Jurassic Park hymn playing in your head from today's headline picture, you're prepared to romp around with dinos, stick...
LOTRO Legendarium: LOTRO’s Update 41 plans monster play reward track, birding hobby, and coop crafting event
Yesterday's Lord of the Rings Online dev stream was a particularly informative one as SSG's Orion made an appearance to talk about what's coming...
WRUP: The standard model of Mario edition
Join us for our weekly open thread! We're discussing what MMOs we're playing this weekend and answering a bonus question about, uh, errors in food judgment.
The Daily Grind: Do you prefer predictable or proc-based classes more?
I've been having such a blast in Pandaria Remix these past couple weeks, in part because it's allowed me to reconnect with one of...
SMITE 2 enters into a second alpha weekend with two more gods and gameplay updates
Did you miss the last time SMITE 2 held a weekend alpha test? Fret not because there's a second alpha test happening right now,...
Massively on the Go: Pokemon GO enters its Shared Skies season without sharing much info
We're entering the summer season in Pokemon Go, and this one is called Shared Skies. If you ignore the repeat info from the upcoming...
The Daily Grind: What’s the worst whaling in a multiplayer game you’ve seen in the last year?
This week, mainstream MOBA gamers flipped alllll the tables over Riot Games' gambit to sell a $450 League of Legends cosmetics bundle themed around...
Casually Classic: Three questions I have for WoW Classic’s probable Pandaria
Oh hey, Cataclysm Classic is here. You can absolutely sense the palpable excitement and community buzz over it, much the same way you can...
Black Desert splashes out for its 10th birthday with a visual history of development and community fun
Black Desert is fond of celebrating its more unusual birthdays - like its 3000th day - so the 10-year anniversary coming up in December...
Corepunk is on day three of trying to get its big alpha test off the ground
Third time's a charm for Corepunk? Artificial Core's top-down MMORPG has struggled through its latest round of alpha, which was originally meant to include...
The Daily Grind: Are there MMOs where you absolutely love the visuals – but that’s it?
As much as we like to tell ourselves that we are deep and mature people of substance, sometimes all it takes is a little...
Choose My Adventure: Adventuring in Southern Elsweyr brings back Elder Scrolls Online’s simple pleasures
It's a bit unfortunate that I've had more fun playing Elder Scrolls Online by myself than with others in recent days, but then I...
Corepunk resets alpha, inviting another 5000 players and extending the test to June 3
Corepunk's latest alpha was meant to kick off this past weekend, but it wasn't without a hitch. Artificial Core admitted that the alpha test,...
New World’s latest community events feature XP boosts, hardware giveaways, and free canopic jars
New World is continuing to throw as many smoke bombs as it can in order to pad the time between now and when it...
The Daily Grind: Do you bring any habits from one MMO to the next?
So a few weekends ago, I was doing overworld questing on my Hobbit Hunter in Lord of the Rings Online when I caught myself...
